It
just keeps getting worse. At first we were told that she had been
vetted by two agencies. Apparently Obama Administration officials were
hoping to cover up the magnitude of this failure. In any case, Tashfeen
Malik stands as a witness to the impossibility of vetting for jihadis.
“U.S. missed ‘red flags’ with San Bernardino shooter,” CBS News, December 14, 2015:

As investigators focus on what or who motivated San
Bernardino shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, to
open fire at the Inland Regional Center, a report about Malik’s comments
on social media before she moved to the U.S. is raising questions about
how thoroughly she was vetted.
Law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News that Malik made radical
postings on Facebook as far back as 2012 — the year before she married
Farook and moved to the U.S., reports CBS News correspondent Carter
Evans. According to a report in the New York Times, Malik spoke
openly on social media about her support for violent jihad and said she
wanted to be a part of it. But none of these postings were discovered
when Malik applied for a U.S. K-1 fiancé visa.
“If you’re going to start doing a deeper dive into somebody and
looking at their social media postings or other things, you really want
to focus your effort on the high-risk traveler, the person that you’re
really worried about being a threat to the United States,” said James
Carafano, national security expert and vice president of the Kathryn and
Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy
at the Heritage Foundation. “The question is, how do you identify them?”Malik was not identified as a threat despite being
interviewed at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan and vetted by five different
government agencies that checked her name and picture against a terror
watch list and ran her fingerprints against two databases.…